.... It's a sunny may day Beth is setting in the kitchen when Sky comes in Morning mom Oh morning honey are you planning to go to the beach ...oday? Yea Shel will be here in a few. Sky honey could you please stay here today we need to talk please? Ok yea mom I'll tell Shel I'm not going what a matter? Oh nothing like that I need to Well lets just wait tell then ok? The horn toted and Sky told her to go without her. Ok mom what is up? Beth took a deep breath and started Sky. During lunch the wedding inevitably came up."What sort of a wedding do you want? Large? Small? Reception?" asked David."Not a great big church miles away. We ought to be able to get families and friends into the village church," replied Eleanor."OK. What about the reception?" Could we have a marquee here in the garden?" Yes of course. Music?" No thanks, David," chipped in Reg. "We don't want one of those all night affairs with a lot of people getting tight."David smiled. "Man after my own. She said , ha yes, one min, go to the nearby class whichever is free ,I’ll get the question paper and come. As I was moving out, another guy came in and asked madam can I write the test today , i missed it yesterday. She kind of looked angry and said not today, i am busy. I was surprised cause I was told to write it now in the next room and she says later to another guy. I was like whatever, and went to the next room and waited for her to come with the question paper.I heard her giggle from. I remember thinking out loud, "I was supposed to get Tenure, damn it. Three books in addition to my PH.D thesis, lectures around the country, and a shot at the Women's Studies chair at the University of Chicago, and the damn Lottery notice came. How the hell can that happen?"It is one hell of a Monday morning when you get this notice. The first thing you do is get angry. Then you deny it. And Denial means you look up your name against the posted list with the Population Control board. Not good..